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People a certain age (mainly: anyone who has left high school for at least a decade or two) as if to say things like, "high school children today too easy.Back in my day we used for ... " before gushing out of certain hyperbolic difficulties. They had to walk to school and snow and write school work by hand until their fingers bleed. Of course, there are ways that high school in a pre-internet age was probably difficult. But the truth is, the life of a modern teenager is like a carnival of horrors. High school has never been more perilous, more demanding, purer and simple terrifying. Do not believe us? Here are 27 ways that high school is worse in 2018 than all you had to bear as a teenager.

Whatever the pressures of the school during your youth, at least you can go home at the end of the day and do not feel like you were under a microscope. Not anymore. Thanks to the social media, all the defects and idiosyncrasy of today's children is constantly explained to their peers (and the world).

Do we think today's children easy? Not by a long shot. The National Center for Education Statistics has recently reviewed school notes and has found that seniors of high school averaged 27.2 credits, a significant increase in 23.6 credits that were common among seniors in 1990 . In addition, 13 percent of students are subject to rigorous hourly, compared to only 5 percent in 1990.

The fault on the internet or the crazy workload, but teenagers are less socially involved than ever. In a recent survey conducted by the UCLA Institute for Research of Higher Education, incoming students admitted to expenseshalf As many hours socialize with friends during their last year of high school than the students had in 1987.

Remember when the biggest concern for a teenager had become too mucha lot Sleep and stumbling at the end of their first class? Today's teenagers have the opposite problem. THE MEDICAL REVIEWPediatrics Revealed that approximately 55 percent of US adolescents, aged 14 to 17, became less than seven hours per night, much less than the National Sleep Recommendation from 8 to 10.(This number falls to a recommended 7 to 8 for adult adults.)

The two public and private schools are more crowded than ever, andby certain accounts There may be up to 40 children piled up in one class. For a teenager who could need a little more attention to stay focused on school, cards are stacked against them.

According to the United States Department of Education, in a recent school year nearly 240 schools responded to "at least one incident involving a fusillade related to the school. In addition to all the other high school pressures, walking through a metal detector and passage of security agents armed in the hallways is a sad new reality for many children.

Or at least they are in Rhode Island.An acute ratio Found last year that, more than 60 schools, laptops lent to students have been equipped with webcams used to spy on children, school and at home. Similar cases occurredin Pennsylvania andLos Angeles, With some school administrators claiming that they do not monitor children to make sure they are not to have suicidal thoughts.

Remember when gym used to involve doing something physical, like climbing ropes and play dodgeball? This happens again, butaccording toNew York Times, Gymnastics teachers are increasingly pushed to "integrate literary skills and information texts being gym. We do not know how it could work, but it seems terrible.

"But wait," you can be protest, "the school cafeteria food has always been terrible. Oh, but notthisawful.A government report In the last decade, there has been a record 300 cases of food poisoning in public schools, sickening up to 16,000 students. Diseases of food origin increased by 10 percent each year.

There has always been a limit to what you could get out of it with the port at school. But clothing codes have obtained particularly strict over the last decade. school managers aremeasuring skirts in Kentucky, passing by "ponchos modesty"At the ball, andAmerican Flag Prohibition T-Shirt DURING CINCO DE MAYO.

Enter a collegeIt is easy, as long as you have a perfect GPA, a lot of extracurricular experience and ways to navigate into a complicated student loan process and inducing stress to pay for fees prohibitly and more and more expensive. (According to the non-profit university council, the annual tuition fees for private colleges in 2017 averaged $ 34,000).

Historically, teenagers have never had common sense when it comes to peer pressure. But for the most part, it used to be fun innocent, like seeing how many bodies could make CRAM in a phone booth or still popular minutes in paradise. But modern teenagers face ories like the challenge of the pod tide, or "truncing" (when cars passengers go inside the trunk), who are not just stupid but could hurt or even kill them .

Intimidators do not need to find you more to hurt you. Thanks to the internet, a child can be mocked viciously, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, the comfort of the phone or the laptop of a tyrant, and there is not much they can do on the defensive forehead.

According tocertain estimates, the average teenager in recent years usually spends $ 600 for a ball dress. If you have tried to tell your parents in the 80s or the 90s that you needed six bills to dress you and the slow dance to browse songs in a high school gym, they would have laughed you from getting out of you the House.

It is not enough to have a 4.0 GPA. Today's adolescents must also fill over other hours of awakening during their day with some activities, play sports to be in special interest clubs to volunteer for countless hours of community service To master a musical instrument or language. The farmers of the eighteenth century had more free time.

Disease and prevention control centers have recently announced that syphilis and chlamydia levels are at a height of all times and that gonorrhea can soon be resistant to all current antibiotics.If you have a teenager Who has not been seated for "The Talk", it might be time to do it.

One of the best things about Growing over the last century is that, however, you have hurt - and part of being young boasts, repeatedly and embarrassing - at least only a handful of people Witness and he was soon forgotten. Today, every mode of fashion, every stupid decision, every overestimation of your own capabilities is broadcast in the online world. And it stays there forever.

The parental helicopter sometimes continues in high school. Teenagers were also pampered and overprotected by their parents, says Julie Lythcott-Haims, author ofHow to raise an adult, When they go to college, they are too shy and terrified to make mistakes, they do not come out of their comfort zone.

Remember that cursive writing? Yeah, most high school students are never taught to do it. Even if you buy arguments that paper writing has become obsolete in 2018, it is stated that the fantasy letter is not the only skill by taking a success.A study found Four elderly people from a four high school made a master's degree in mathematics and a 37% slightly higher than reading.

The abuse of adolescent drugs is nothing new, but children were used to look for substances as a means of relaxing and escaping. Today's teens, if you take it aLos Angeles Times report, Look for Adderall, an amphetamine that helps with concentration and energy. So, to summarize, they take Adderall so that they can not sleep for a week, work themselves to death and have a graduate in a university education charged with debt, despite an understanding of mathematics.

Teens on the Internet use social media and YouTube to convince their favorite celebrities to be their ball dates. And it works, with everyone from Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Shaun Blanc, Mila Kunis, Betty White, Justin Timberlake and Kate Upton agreed to introduce themselves and slow dance with their high school fans. Now, simply receive a date with this guy or daughter you like in pre-calc, like the slumming.

Of course, it might not be immediately sound "horrible". But SMS has none of the terms of danger and illegal to try to slip a paper note to a classmate without the teaching person noticing. The setting of their phones has transformed modern teenagers into zombies, a distant cry of communication with peers in high school used to involve real efforts. It's a lost form of art, and it's worth mourning.

Internet may seem like a gift for a high school student who seeks to search for a document or study for a test. And this can be, assuming your teacher is correct with facts that are a little sorta true. According tonumerous studiesThere are a lot of false miscarriage or false miscarriage circulated online, and it is increasingly difficult to tell the difference. At least Wikipedia is still reliable, with an 80% precision rate, according to ato study published in theReview of reference services.

Teachers have never had fair wages, but it's scared than ever before. The Political Institute of Economic Policy found that teacher salaries have decreased steadily over the last two decades, with an average weekly salary of $ 1,122 in 1996 to $ 1,092 in 2015. What could Being better than getting your education for people who can hardly afford to feed and feed clothes?

To be fair,Slang teenage has always been ridiculous. But at least you can communicate with other teenagers using words that looked like words. The modern slang looks like a group of Aliens Gibberish or impossible to decode acronyms. To avoid being socially ostracized in high school, you must follow a shortening of the ever-changing language that is just a little more complicated than the HTML coding.

The psychologist Jean Twenge invented a new name for the generation born between 1995 and 2012: they are "IGEN" -Because they are using their iPhone a lot, and they value individualism, so the emphasis on "i. " We have no idea what it will catch, but it's deeply stupid, and today's high school students must decide whether they will really refer to themselves.

We are not talking about late fees for late books at the school library. In the Utah states in Oklahoma, students can be sentenced to a fineUp to $ 250For even 15 minutes late in class. And if they are late enough, it could lead two weeks of prison time! Students can be sentenced to a fine of thousands of people for acclamations during graduation , cursed in class or attempt to eat a second lunch . Any child coming out of high school without taking indebtedness is one of the lucky.